Vehicle signal



1 H. H. RUEDEBUSCH VEHICLE SIGNAL Filed March 5, 1927 2 Sheets-Sheet 1 H. H. RUEDEBUSCH VEHICLE. SIGNAL Filed March 5, 1927 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 Zlwuentoc a 5 e a 5 M I 7 fi 4 r i atented @ct. 25, 1927.

HERMAN H. RUEDEBUSCH, 0F ELKTON, SOUTH DAKOTA.

VEHICLE slogan.

Application filed. March 5, 1922. Serial No. 173,134.

This invention relates to and more particularly to a eating the intention of the driver mobile to turn.

An important object of the vehicle signals signal for indiof an autoinvention is to produce a device of this character which will be neat in appearance and simple in its construction and which may applied to the vehicle.

A further object be very readily of the invention is to provide a signal having a movable arm or arms and novel and improved mechanism for shifting these arms from an non-signaling position to their positions.

- A further object of the invention is to provide a device of this eluding means whereby the inoperative or signaling character inslgnal is automatically restored to its inoperative position upon release of the operating mechanism.

These and Other objects 1 construction shown in the drawings, wherein. for tration is shown a preferred my invention and wherein:

attain by the accompanying the purpose of illusembodiment of Figure 1 is a sectional View through the cowl of an automobile having signalling mechanism constructed in accordance with my invention applied thereto;

Figure 2 is a section on the line 2-2 of Figure 1;

Figure 3 Figure 1;

Figure 4 is a section on Figure 1;

Figure is a section on the line 33 of the line ie-4; of

is a section through the bearing;

Figure 6 is a section on the line 6-6 of Figure 1;

F1gure 7 1s a Figure 2;

section on the line 77 of 28 Figure 8 is a plan view of the control plate element on the section line 88 of Figure 7.

Referring now more particularly to the drawings, the numeral 10 g enerally designates the dash-board of an automobile and 11 the cowl thereof. at the angle In the wall of this cowl between the top and sides there:

of, 1 form slots 13 extendin transversclyof the vehicle and into both walls. Within the space und jacent each slot, 1 secure, by ports 14, the bearings the top and side er the cowl admeans of sup- 15 having sockets receiving spherical heads 16 upon the inner ends of gnal arms 17. This 16 and bearin spherical head s 15 are provided with coating tongue and groove engagement at 18, preventing twisting of the signal arm. This signal arm projects through the slot and has attached thereto a head 19, the front and rear walls of which have "lenses 20 and at the interror of which is mounted an electrical illumlnating element 521. "The signal arms 17 are hollow and form conduits, by means of whichlead wires 22 for-the illuminating elements may be extended thereto and whereby these lead wires may be conducted to the space beneath the cowl.

Botatably directed through the dashboard 10 is a shaft 23. Secured to the forward face of the dash by brackets 24 and overlying the shaft in concentric relation thereto is an arcuate plate 25, which is longitudinally slotted, as at 26, from end to end.

Bridging the slot at the center of the plate is a support 27, which 'projects upwardly from the plate. Pivotally connected at their outer ends to the signal arms 17 are links 28, the inner ends of Which extend through the slot 26 and are provided with trans versely extending heads 29, preventing withdrawal thereof through the slot. Springs 30 connected between the support 27 and these links hold the heads of the links in engagement with the under surface of the arcuate bar and draw the links toward the center of the arcuate bar, so that the signal arms are normally maintained in vertical position.

Secured to the forward end of the shaft 23 is a vertically extending arm 31, the upper end which is forked and has its arms 32 aligned longitudinally of the vehicle. These arms are provided in their opposite side faces with notches 33 receiving the corresponding ends of the heads 29 of the links It will be obvious that if the shaft 23 is rotated, this arm, by its engagement with the head 29 of a link 28, will shift this link longitudinally against the action of the spring 30 and thus cause the associated signal arm 17 to move from 1ts vertical or non-signaling i in which is rotatably mounted a shaft 37 i is aligned with and engaged in either of these the lower end of which is connected by a universal joint 38 of the shaft 23;" The upper end of this shaft has an angular extension 39 connected with a handle by a resilient strip 41. Secured to the member 35 by a bracket 42 is a control plate43, which is arcuately curved with the axis of the bear ing 86 as a center This-plate adjacent its ends has notches 4% into which the resilient section 41 of the operating handle springs when aligned therewith. When the handle notches, a corresponding signal element has been moved to its signalling position.

It will be obvious that a construction of this character is capable of a considerable a 1. In a vehicle signal, a 25' range of change and modification without materially departing from the spirit of the invention and I- accordingly do not limit nected at each arinand extending toward the 7 other arm,

position, a link con- I an arcuate plate having a slot through Which the adjacent ends of'the links I are directed, a rotatable shaft concentric with the plate, an arm carried by the shaft and having its free end extended between adjacent ends of the links and'springs yieldably maintaining the links in positions where the arms thereof are in non-signalling position. 2; In a vehicle signal, a pair of spaced semaphorearmspivoted to swing from parallel non-signalling positions to signalling positions at substantially right angles to the non-signalling positions, means limit ng .movement of the semaphorearms when they arrive at non-signalling position, a link connected at each arm and extending toward the other arm, an arcuate plate having a slot through which the adjacent ends of the links are directed, a rotatable'shaft concentric with the plate, an'arm carried by the shaft and having its free end extended between adjacent ends of the links and springs yieldably maintaining the links in positions where the arms thereof are in non-signalling position, said links each having at its inner end a head located at the side of the plate adjacent which the free end of said armoperates, said springs maintaining saidheads in engagement with the plate.

j In testimony whereof I hereunto afiix my signature HERMAN 1-1, RUEDEBUSCH. 

